Satellite P100-324 (PSPA6E) - Intel T7400 - Virtualization disabled

Hi Toshiba support staff,
I have a toshiba satellite p100-324 (pspa6e) with intel core2duo t7400 processor and my problem is hardware virtualization (VT aka VMX) doesn't works because of it's locked off by bios. Also there is no option in bios for enabling it. It's not make any sence that you have this technology but you can't use it.
I'm a professional programer but i can't test my programs in virtual environment because of this smart bios. I have been waiting this from bios version 3.30. Now i'm using phoenix bios v4.70 but it's not done!
I think it's toshiba's irresponsibility, and if toshiba is not releasing a new BIOS in order to support what the features they sold, it will be my last toshiba product purchase. Beacuse it's waste of money. You should have clearly said what features were disabled if you're not planning to fix this problem. If toshiba's policy will continue like this, the unhappy customer number will be grow.

No, unfortunately you're wrong.
The cpu supports the virtualization (vt extensions). You can also see this by executing cpuinfo command in linux (by checking vmx flag in output) or running intel proccessor id utility program on windows.
BUT when i start ant guest operating system in virtual box with vt-x enabled, it shows me an error that telling it's turned off by bios and i have to enable it from bios. Also securable program is says my virtualization is locked off by bios. So i have vt support but i can't enable /use it.
(you can think that this is the program's fault but i checked it with xen, kvm on linux, virtualbox1.5 to 3.0 version with both linux and windows hosts, so i'm pretty sure that vt is disabled by bios and there's not an option to enabling it.)
thanks for your reply but i think the only way is a new bios with option for enabling vt.

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